Archive Page 9 – Graphic Chatter

News and information culled from the internet

January 2025

MEDICINE

Fighting non-alcoholic fatty-liver disease with Mediterranean diets

Story at Oloygeia  [in Greek] [Use Google Translate to turn to English]

21ST CENTURY SCIENCE

Controversy surrounds U.S. company that tests baby embryos for IQ and health

This comes across as a screening service so that parents can conduct a selection process of potential babies.

Story at Parapolitika [in Greek] [Use Google Translate to turn to English]

CHINA

The Chinese Economy Conundrum

"The other possibility... which is "the Consumer" must appear. I'm told that consuming in China is buying gold and burying it somewhere in the back yard, if you have one, or in the floorboards if you live in an apartment. What kind of consuming will help them? And how're they going to do it? I remember that nearly 70% of [American] GDP growth is the consumer, we're very good at shopping. How do we teach the Chinese to be equally good at shopping?"

"That is the key issue... people have understood for decades that China eventually needed to shift out of this property driven economic model, out of this investment in export-driven market and into an economy that would be more reliant on domestic consumption ...the problem is how are they going to accomplish that? Particularly when the property slow-down they've engineered is denting household and consumer confidence in general ...households are becoming less and less inclined to consume and more and more inclined to go back to just saving a lot..."

The John Batchelor Show radio program

AGING

Rare aging disease Progeria Syndrome claims life of man in Italy who lived to 28, outliving longevity predictions by 15 years

Story at Protothema [Greek] [Use Google Translate to turn to English]

96 Years Ago

A street in Athens, Greece

BLOOD

"Platelet scoring" helps predict heart issues like clotting, heart attacks – "experimental genetic test can gauge a person's risk of developing potentially deadly blood clots" - UPI News

The test assesses whether a person's platelets are "hyperreactive," and thus prone to abnormal clotting that blocks arteries..."

Article refers over to another piece at Nature Communications

Original page February 7, 2025